Simple Stargazing (First Edition)

Anton Vamplew

ISBN 10: 0007203950 / ISBN 13: 9780007203956

Published by Harper Collins, London, 2005

About this Item

LONDON: Harper Collins / Index, 2005. First edition. Second printing. Hardcover. Glossy illustrated boards matching the dust jacket design, with red endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy. Publisher's original price intact on front jacket flap (£12.99). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 160 pages including index. Prior owner s neat gift inscription on title page. An introduction to amateur astronomy, offering practical guidance on how to observe stars, planets, and constellations with the naked eye or simple equipment. Anton Vamplew is a British astronomer, author, and BBC science presenter whose works help demystify celestial observation for beginners.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Simple Stargazing (First Edition)
• Publisher: Harper Collins, London
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007203950
• ISBN 13: 9780007203956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Astronomy

About this title

Synopsis

A first-time skywatcher's guide from bright new talent, BBC Blue Peter astronomer, Anton Vamplew Most books on stargazing claim to be for beginners, but by page 12 are talking about celestial equators and sidereal months. No wonder so many people have planispheres but no idea how to use them. Working at the planetarium in Greenwich, Anton has met hundreds of enthusiastic but utterly bemused beginners of all ages, and has made sense of the night sky for them. In this book he introduces the night sky just as if he were by your side, pointing everything out. And contrary to popular belief, you don't need any expensive equipment to start skygazing. Anton takes you through all the things you can discover with just the naked eye. The book is suitable for use in the northern and southern hemispheres -- two sections give equal coverage to where to start and what you can see wherever you are in the world, whenever.

About the Author

Anton has been the BBC Blue Peter astronomer for eight years, teaches GCSE astronomy, tours schools, gives lectures at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich and produces a 'live' fortnightly as astronomy section on the BBC 7 Big Toe Radio Show. Increasingly, he is quoted in The Times and other broadsheets in astronomical news stories, and is currently appearing on BBC4 and Radio 4. He is illustrating as well as writing this book, and you can check out his award-winning website at www.vamplew.co.uk